Explain Everything Workshop Take better notes: Notability, Evernote, AudioNote
Create multi-media notes - take photos of what the teacher is showing, record audio, type or write on the screen.
Author a Book - My Story (Younger students), Creative Book Builder (Works with Google Docs, video, audio, weblinks) Book Creator ( Favorite, straightforward)
Curate/Create content for students- Allows teacher to gather content and resources in one place
Assess students - students can create a book to show what they know.
They can collect information and display what they know. This book can be their study guide.
Digital Portfolio - Can embed podcasts, text, videos
Direct a movie Camera in device, iMovie, iStopMotion (
Great way for students to direct their own content
Assess what students know who aren't great writers perhaps.
Students directors of own content
Meaningful skills that apply to a larger life: Creativity is learned and demonstrated here.
Teachers can capture students' learning using video - Example: Teacher taking 3 minute videos of students' handwriting over the course of the year to show growth.
Organize yourself: Calendars from Reidel, Reminders, Clock
Executive function: manage your life
Tools to help students organize themselves
Calendars color codes events, reminders
Clock - set timers or alarms Notification for students that they will have to transition in two minutes
Travel the WorldTourWrist take a virtual tour by moving device around This is great for kinestenic learners who need to get up and move, FaceTime Work with a partner class. Learn about a geographic area and their culture To Kill a Mockingbird - connect with a class in the south, compare culture with north Southern Hospitality, what happens if you wear a hat to dinner table? in norht OK, in South get punished., get a Vietnam veteran to share with class, Barefoot Atalas
Mobile devices have changed the classroom
Access to content is extended
Opens up the classroom to the world
Connect with others and see what is going on in the rest of the world.
Virtual field trips, connect to others around the world
Capture Meta-cognitionEducreations, Explain Everything Students can film themselves doing something as they explain, Ask3 Allows students to share with their peers and hear their peers' explanations
Allow students to explain their thinking - assess them by hearing their explanation as they solve a problem
Let students explain what they know
Improve WorkflowDropBox Have parents sign off on this, SendtoDropbox students can email something to DropBox, Set up Shared folders for groups, ShowBie Dropbox for schools, teachers can set up folders, set up assignments with PDF, Audio, and other media Students have their own folder and teachers can put work in only one student's folder to differentiate. Can drop in photos for feedback too. Students drop in assignments. Red marks all over papers, no tone of voice with text so students don't always understand the tone of the message. Here teachers can leave an audio message about their essays. Free for schools. Parents can log into Showbie. Teachers can take a photo of something and put that in as feed back. When you put something in a dropbox in Showbie others cannot delete that. Showbie is Internet based. Students and parents can access files from website. Google Drive Can now upload video and audio here to shared folder
How do students manage textbooks, notebooks, paperwork etc.
Digital workflow is important
Access abilities:
For special needs students and for individualizing and students working in their areas of stregth
Turn on Speech Selection: under Vision: Have work read back if visually impaired, problems decoding, or want what you wrote to be read aloud to listen for mistakes
Zoom:
Guided Access: Can lock students into an app When you lock an app you can also just lock out certain areas. Student taking an assessment cannot get into other Apple Configurator can do this.
Differentiating - Assessment
Coach's Eye - video can be annotated
Croakit! - Students can record 30 seconds of audio
CollaborationSubtext - deep reading, highlighting, track where students are in the book, works with Google Books and free books, bText
Create slides and share the presentation and let others finish it.
Why use an iPod, iPad, or iPhone in School?
Archived session on ICE WikiExplain Everything Workshop
Take better notes: Notability, Evernote, AudioNote
Create multi-media notes - take photos of what the teacher is showing, record audio, type or write on the screen.
Author a Book - My Story (Younger students), Creative Book Builder (Works with Google Docs, video, audio, weblinks) Book Creator ( Favorite, straightforward)
Curate/Create content for students- Allows teacher to gather content and resources in one place
Assess students - students can create a book to show what they know.
They can collect information and display what they know. This book can be their study guide.
Digital Portfolio - Can embed podcasts, text, videos
Direct a movie Camera in device, iMovie, iStopMotion (
Great way for students to direct their own content
Assess what students know who aren't great writers perhaps.
Students directors of own content
Meaningful skills that apply to a larger life: Creativity is learned and demonstrated here.
Teachers can capture students' learning using video - Example: Teacher taking 3 minute videos of students' handwriting over the course of the year to show growth.
Organize yourself: Calendars from Reidel, Reminders, Clock
Executive function: manage your life
Tools to help students organize themselves
Calendars color codes events, reminders
Clock - set timers or alarms Notification for students that they will have to transition in two minutes
Travel the World TourWrist take a virtual tour by moving device around This is great for kinestenic learners who need to get up and move, FaceTime Work with a partner class. Learn about a geographic area and their culture To Kill a Mockingbird - connect with a class in the south, compare culture with north Southern Hospitality, what happens if you wear a hat to dinner table? in norht OK, in South get punished., get a Vietnam veteran to share with class, Barefoot Atalas
Mobile devices have changed the classroom
Access to content is extended
Opens up the classroom to the world
Connect with others and see what is going on in the rest of the world.
Virtual field trips, connect to others around the world
Capture Meta-cognition Educreations, Explain Everything Students can film themselves doing something as they explain, Ask3 Allows students to share with their peers and hear their peers' explanations
Allow students to explain their thinking - assess them by hearing their explanation as they solve a problem
Let students explain what they know
Improve Workflow DropBox Have parents sign off on this, SendtoDropbox students can email something to DropBox, Set up Shared folders for groups, ShowBie Dropbox for schools, teachers can set up folders, set up assignments with PDF, Audio, and other media Students have their own folder and teachers can put work in only one student's folder to differentiate. Can drop in photos for feedback too. Students drop in assignments. Red marks all over papers, no tone of voice with text so students don't always understand the tone of the message. Here teachers can leave an audio message about their essays. Free for schools. Parents can log into Showbie. Teachers can take a photo of something and put that in as feed back. When you put something in a dropbox in Showbie others cannot delete that. Showbie is Internet based. Students and parents can access files from website. Google Drive Can now upload video and audio here to shared folder
How do students manage textbooks, notebooks, paperwork etc.
Digital workflow is important
Access abilities:
For special needs students and for individualizing and students working in their areas of stregth
Turn on Speech Selection: under Vision: Have work read back if visually impaired, problems decoding, or want what you wrote to be read aloud to listen for mistakes
Zoom:
Guided Access: Can lock students into an app When you lock an app you can also just lock out certain areas. Student taking an assessment cannot get into other Apple Configurator can do this.
Differentiating - Assessment
Coach's Eye - video can be annotated
Croakit! - Students can record 30 seconds of audio
Collaboration Subtext - deep reading, highlighting, track where students are in the book, works with Google Books and free books, bText
Create slides and share the presentation and let others finish it.
Students can collaborate. iPads can share screens